Roy J. Tellason,

26-Oct-99 00:59:31, Andy Roberts wrote to Roy J. Tellason
 AR> 25-Oct-99 17:34:53, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Andy Roberts
 RJT>> Andy Roberts wrote in a message to All:
 AR> Subject: M$ "screw you" FAT32

 AR>>> Personally I'm a little surprised that Seagate's Low Level
 AR>>> Format prgm for IDE drives did not solve the problem.

 RJT>> So am I.

 RJT>> .. any software that puts _zeros_ in that first sector of the disk,
 RJT>> without regard for partitions or filesystems or anything else oughta do
 RJT>> it.  I *think* I remember seeing somebody post a debug script that
 RJT>> would do the trick, though I can't be sure

 AR> I vaguely remember something about that.  I hope they repost the
 AR> details.

Found it:
From : George Fliger 27-Jun-99  To Neil Croft
Subj : Re: LILO

 > If you want to TOTALLY clear partition information from your drive so
 > there is no partition code lying around from other configurations there
 > is a DEBUG script that you can run that will clear the old information.
 > It will require you having a bootable copy of DOS 6.x lying around with
 > DEBUG.EXE on one of the DOS disks.

 > Even if you've repartitioned the hard drive, FDISK does not update the
 > entire partition sector after the first time.  This script will clear
 > the partition sector (cyl 0, head 0, sector 1) of the first hard drive
 > which will force FDISK to completely start over.

 > Here is the script.

 >         C:\>DEBUG
 >         - f 200 L200 0
 >         - a 100
 >         xxxx:xxxx  mov ax,301 (ignore segment:offset values at left)
 >         xxxx:xxxx  mov bx,200
 >         xxxx:xxxx  mov cx,1
 >         xxxx:xxxx  mov dx,0080
 >         xxxx:xxxx  int 13
 >         xxxx:xxxx  int 3
 >         xxxx:xxxx             (Press ENTER an extra time here)
 >         - g=100
 >                               (ignore register display)
 >         - q                   (quits back to DOS)

 > FDISK should now show "No partitions defined".

 > If you have web access the following information is provided for those
 > who want an explanation of the script and wish to download a copy:

 > .Filename: HDCLEAR.TXT
 > WWW URL:   http://www.firmware.com/pb4ts/hdclear.htm
 > FTP URL:   ftp://ftp.firmware.com/text/hdclear.txt
 > Author:    Terry Slade, Micro Firmware Technical Support
 > Revision:  06/17/96
 > Summary:   This DEBUG script is used to erase a hard drive when other
 >            methods are not sufficient.

So I don't need that reposted now.

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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